William Callew (Joseph Cotten) is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.
Hitchcock returns for his 2nd of 17 directed episodes to give us a very entertaining morality tale. I mean to me its very close to being up there with the Pilot episode when it comes to good direction and quality and you can just tell when Hitch is behind the camera verses everyone else. The story itself is really nice as we have a character who seems to be a prick, for example he fires one of his associates at the beginning of the episode by phone, then puts him down for crying about it and not being a man. Which makes it only fitting that that's what eventually saves his life. Anyways this episode has been done a hundred times in the the past with "Tales from the Crypt" redoing it and many other horror anthologies as well, however this is the best take of this story and I defiantly recommend it.
Hitchcock returns for his 2nd of 17 directed episodes to give us a very entertaining morality tale. I mean to me its very close to being up there with the Pilot episode when it comes to good direction and quality and you can just tell when Hitch is behind the camera verses everyone else. The story itself is really nice as we have a character who seems to be a prick, for example he fires one of his associates at the beginning of the episode by phone, then puts him down for crying about it and not being a man. Which makes it only fitting that that's what eventually saves his life. Anyways this episode has been done a hundred times in the the past with "Tales from the Crypt" redoing it and many other horror anthologies as well, however this is the best take of this story and I defiantly recommend it.